Associate Clinical Professor Richard Riley

Associate Clinical Professor Riley is a practicing anaesthetist at Royal Perth Hospital, having trained in anaesthesia in both Australia and the United States of America.  He has a strong interest in medical simulation and from 2001 to 2003 he was the Clinical Director of the Centre for Anaesthesia Skills and Medical Simulation, part of CTEC at The University of Western Australia. He was a Medical Adviser for WA Health’s Clinical Simulation Support Unit from 2014 to 2014.   In 2006 he was the Meeting Chair for the International Meeting on Medical Simulation.  He is the Chief Editor of the Australasian Anaesthesia Journal since 2009. 

Associate Professor Riley has edited a substantial handbook on the use of simulation in various healthcare settings ranging from emergency medicine, intensive care, anaesthesia, military medicine, nursing and obstetrics.  Published by Oxford University Press, the Manual of Simulation in Healthcare (1st edition 2008, 2nd edition 2016 ) involves impressive contributions by simulation experts drawn from all around the world.   In 2009, Associate Professor Riley received a prestigious Book Award from the British Medical Society in recognition of the quality of his literary achievement.  In 2011 he and Dr Geoff McConnell were awarded the Simulation Australia Achievement Awards for significant contribution to the development of modelling and simulation science, technology, policy, standards and / or industry in Australia.

Associate Professor Riley also has interests in difficult airway management and obesity.